![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Kirk's „A Study in Folk-Lore and Psychical Research” dates from 1691, and is perhaps a hallucinatory and delusional labor of love by a minister obsessed with psychic phenomena. As a document of the popular mindset of a time in which the odd or the outcast were still condemned and punished as witches, it is wholly astonishing. These Subterraneans have Controverfies, Doubts, Difputes, Feuds, and Siding of Parties… As to Vice and Sin, whatever their own Laws be… they tranfgrefs and commit Acts of Injuftice… -from Chapter 11 As a study of 17th-century folklore, this mysterious and remarkable text is fascinating. ![]()
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![]() She frequently fought for reproductive rights for her community and understood that economically thriving and safe communities were tied to education and health care. Her platform focused on racial and gender equity, elevating those issues to the national stage. Shirley Chisholm became a household name when she became the first Black woman to make a bid for President of the United States when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972. Throughout her time in Congress, she supported and improved employment and education programs, the expansion of day care, income support, and other programs designed to improve inner city life and opportunities for those communities. From there, she ran for Congress using the motto “Unbought and Unbossed,” and won herself a seat on behalf of New York’s 12 th Congressional District. This led her to run for, and win, a seat in the New York State Legislature in 1950. She began her career as a New York City educator, where she saw the problems of the poor every single day. During her time, she changed the nation’s perspective about what women and Black Americans were capable of. ![]() ![]() Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, was a passionate advocate for the needs of minorities, women and children. Farmers, Ranchers & Agricultural Workers.Things Forgotten: Specialty & Senior Move Managers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The voice speaks at maybe 100-200 words per minute, whereas I can read at around 400-600 words per minute. I had always been frustrated at the slow speed of audio books. With the audiobook, the Gordian knot has been cut. But on the other hand, the weather has been so amazing that I want to take walks. ![]() On the one hand, during the afternoons I usually read. ![]() And since the book is so long, I was like, well I’ll be getting a lot of value for my three dollars…Īll spring I’ve been wrestling with conflicting desires. Today though I for some reason decided to buy an audiobook! I’m reading Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life, which is immensely long (and immensely good), and on Amazon they’ll sometimes have these deals where if you buy the kindle version of a book you can also buy the audio version for a couple of books. Whenever people talk to me about audio books (or podcasts), I joke that I’m too self-absorbed to listen for hours to another person talking. ![]() ![]() What they don't expect is the resistance they receive-and why would they, they have always gotten what they want-until now, and at least not without a fight of wills. ![]() Even with trouble surrounding them, they are not men to let an opportunity get away from them-again. Including the little hellcat who walked away from them for no good reason. Even the ones who don't want their protection or don't need it. Building a life for herself, moving on, doing exactly what they wanted her to do-leave.Ĭreed and Fork run the Warriors, and when problems arise with the Diablos, everyone is called back in. When she left two years ago, she had been broken by the only family she had ever known. ![]() In book two of the Ops Warriors MC: Harmony finds herself being pulled back into the last place she promised herself she would never go again. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this fourth in the High Society Lady Detective series, Rosett and her heroine. South Regent Mansions has all the modern conveniences. If you like sophisticated whodunits, charming characters, and novels with a lighthearted tone, you'll enjoy the seventh installment of the High Society Lady Detective series, Murder at the Mansions, from USA Today bestselling author, Sara Rosett. Murder at the Mansions (High Society Lady Detective). Read 'Murder at the Mansions A 1920s Historical Mystery' by Sara Rosett available from Rakuten Kobo. With dashing Jasper at her side, Olive must discover whose secret is worth killing for. Olive uncovers rivalries, clandestine affairs, and hidden jealousies. They include: society's it girl of the moment, an accountant with a fondness for gadgets, a snooty society matron, and a school teacher turned bridge instructor. To help restore Minerva's peace of mind, Olive investigates her neighbors. ![]() ![]() Is Minerva seeing things? Is she barmy? Or is there a more sinister explanation? At least, that's what Minerva thought she saw, but there's not a dead body anywhere in the posh building, and the residents are continuing with their lives as they normally do. Discreet sleuth for the high society set, Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she's made several friends, including the modern career woman, Minerva, who draws a popular cartoon about a flapper for a London newspaper.īut then Minerva comes to Olive for help after catching a glimpse of a disturbing sight-a dead body. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But we must also remember he inherited Florence when he was 20 and had to face a conspiracy that ended his brother's life, and almost his own, when he was barely 29. Yes, he commissioned great works of art and gave us a great ending to that first part of the Renaissance that were the 1400s. ![]() Yes, his silver tongue and diplomatic skill saved Florence more than once. ![]() Most depictions of him paint the man as a great statesman, diplomat, and patron of the arts. One such character, and one I enjoy teaching about, is Lorenzo de Medici, the de facto ruler of Florence during the latter part of the 1400s. ![]() I want my students to feel connected to them, to understand they felt like we feel and dreamt like we dream. In class, I teach the good and the bad of every important character that has done something to shape human civilisation. This narrative detaches them from our reality and doesn't let us relate to them. The main problem I face is that most people get their historical information from movies and TV shows that paint historical figures as some sort of superhumans. One thing I try to instill in my students' minds is to teach them to see historical figures as regular men and women like you or me. ![]() ![]() While the story has been told many times, Schaap makes good use of his prodigious research and access to the Owens family, even digging up the fact that Owens's oft-repeated claim he was snubbed by Hitler and the Berlin crowd was very likely untrue. ![]() The real drama of Schaap's book, which surprisingly skimps on Owens the person, comes in the politically fractious runup to Berlin (for the ceremony-obsessed Hitler, "a fascist fantasy come true"). ![]() By the time the "Ebony Antelope" (as one of many adoring newspapermen had anointed him) was ready for Berlin, his success was practically guaranteed. Owens seems so perfectly made for running and jumping that the following years of ever-increasing athletic and popular success are less exciting than preordained. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitlers Olympics delves into the perfect opportunity for Hitler to showcase his idiotic ideal that Aryans. ) flashes back to Owens's childhood in 1920s Cleveland, where junior high coach Charles Riley spotted his astounding physique and near limitless potential for track and field. ![]() ![]() Starting with Owens as the well-feted ex-athlete in the 1950s, Schaap (an ESPN anchor and author of Cinderella Man Written as though the film treatment were already completed, Schaap's chronicle of Jesse Owens's journey to and glorious triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is snappy and dramatic, with an eye for the rousing climax, through curiously slight on follow-through. ![]() ![]() ![]() Waller says that the burning of Protestant Archbishop Cranmer for heresy was a “propaganda disaster” for Mary I, while image-conscious Elizabeth I promoted her own association with the Virgin Mary. Often wrongly dismissed as a fat, sickly dullard, says Waller, Anne was politically shrewd and ambitions to be queen, instigating malicious rumors that her Catholic half-brother was a changeling. Elizabeth II, portrayed as passive and unimaginative, indulged her mother while wounding her husband by keeping the Windsor name, and surrendered her prerogative to choose a midterm prime minister. In Waller's view, Mary II and Victoria colluded in their own diminishment by domineering husbands. ) highlights the triumphs and travails of England's six female monarchs: Anne, the two Marys, the two Elizabeths and Victoria. Aller ( Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown ![]() ![]() ![]() Similar accounts are found in the Icelandic Saga of Hrolf Kraki and the Roman legend of Lucius Junius Brutus, both of which feature heroes who pretend to be insane in order to get revenge. It is this work Shakespeare borrowed from to create Hamlet. A Scandinavian version of the story of Hamlet (called Amleth or Amlóði, which means "mad" or "not sane" in Old Norse) was put into writing around 1200 AD by Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in his work Gesta Danorum (the first full history of Denmark). ![]() The generic "hero-as-fool" story is so old and is expressed in the literature of so many cultures that scholars have hypothesized that it may be Indo-European in origin. The sources of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 15, trace back as far as pre-13th century. Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum ( Angers Fragment), page 1, front ![]() ![]() As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried-and some monsters are only too ready to awaken. ![]() When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project-including its members’ dead bodies. Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy.Īfter receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. ![]() ![]() Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery ![]() |